A proposed African charter aimed at promoting family values, national sovereignty and cultural identity is drawing support from lawmakers and religious leaders across the continent while sparking opposition from human rights groups and some governments who say it could undermine existing protections for women and minority groups.
Christians in a village in Nigeria remain traumatized by violence even as a priest held hostage for 61 days was released last month, sources said.
International Post Date: February 9, 2026 Haitian Prime Minister Ali...
As police looked on, a Hindu nationalist mob in India subjected a pastor to dehumanizing brutality, damaging his hearing in the process as they tried to force him to worship a Hindu deity
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Gunmen massacred and executed dozens of people in two Muslim-majority villages in Nigeria s western Kwara state after residents refused to accept their extremist preaching, according to reports
Retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai's wife, Teresa Lai, leave court after the Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial on Monday. Associated Press...
A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon and religious freedom advocate Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison, the harshest penalty yet handed down under Beijing s national security
A religious freedom activist warns that the Assyrian Christian community in the Middle East does not have a chance of survival and offered sharp words of criticism at the sixth annual International
The European Court of Human Rights has opened proceedings in 20 cases involving Christians barred from re-entering T rkiye after being designated as national security threats The individuals, mostly
Attorney General Pam Bondi center, addressing media with FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and Jeanine Pirro, right. Associated Press / Photo by J. Scott Applewhite ...
